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R -19 -19 <br />A RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE ENHANCED HAZARDOUS DUTY BENEFITS FOR <br />EMPLOYED FULL -TIME SALARIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS FOR <br />THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH. <br />WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth desires to provide enhanced hazardous duty benefits <br />for employed full -time salaried Emergency Medical Technicians; <br />NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, a <br />political subdivision currently participating in the Virginia Retirement System under Title 51.1, <br />Chapter 1, Article 5 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, acting by and through its City Council <br />does hereby elect to have such employees of the City who are employed in positions as full time <br />salaried Emergency Medical Technicians and whose tenure is not restricted as to temporary or <br />provisional appointment, to become eligible, effective July 1, 2019, to be provided benefits in the <br />Virginia Retirement System equivalent to those provided for State police officers of the <br />Department of State Police, as set out in Section 51.1 -138 of the Code of Virginia, in lieu of the <br />benefits that would otherwise be provided as such code has been or may be amended from time <br />to time, and the City agrees to pay the employer cost for providing such employees such <br />benefits; and <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Dr. L. Pettis Patton, City Manager, and Debra Y. <br />White, Clerk, are hereby authorized and directed in the name of the City to execute any required <br />contract in order that the above described employees of the City may become entitled to <br />retirement benefits equivalent to those provided for State police officers of the Department of <br />State Police. In execution of any contract which may be required the seal of the City shall be <br />affixed and attested by the Clerk and, said officers of the City are hereby authorized and directed <br />to do any other thing, or things, incident and necessary in the lawful conclusion of this matter. <br />The Treasurer of the City be and is hereby authorized and directed and pay over to the Treasurer <br />of Virginia from time to time such sums as are to be paid by the City and its employees for this <br />purpose. <br />ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia at a meeting held on June <br />25, 2019. <br />Teste: <br />City Clerk <br />